LETTER: Ex-miners are subsidising wealthy
Noisy, cosmetic campaigns which collect little revenue are no substitute for an efficient tax collection system where we all pay our fair share. I understand some 94 per cent of self assessments are no longer checked whilst the Government continues to slash tax rates for the wealthy.
In effect, Mansfield ex-miners are subsidising tax cuts for the better off from their pension fund.
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Hide AdThe recent vastly expensive party political propaganda paid for by the Conservatives in local newspapers like the Chad, Derbyshire Times and Worksop Guardian did not mention this looting of the mineworkers’ pension fund. Meanwhile champagne guzzling, tax dodging billionaires, lolling in hammocks on yachts in the Bahamas, raise their glasses to Theresa May.
However, all will be well when Mrs May brings back fox hunting.
Barry Donlan
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